Paul Cotton replied in response to a request for a primer.
> No one in either of the WGs has proposed the need for such a Primer.
Paul,
I guess that shows the value of the specifications being open to public
comment. If the WG members haven't already proposed a primer, it seems to me
to be a surprising omission.
>In fact we are trying to make the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 language
documents >themselves as "usable" and "approachable" as possible and hope
this makes having >a Primer unnecessary.
Given the passage of time since I first raised the issue I will simply
comment that, at least as judged by the November 2002 WDs, there is in my
view a VERY long way to go to make the specification documents
"approachable".
I reiterate my request for the WG(s) to consider producing one or more primer
documents to significantly improve the level of approachability of these
specifications.
Andrew Watt